Degrowth, decolonisation and food sovereignty in the Cree Nation of Chisasibi

Radu, Ioana; Parent, Émilie; Snowboy, Gabriel; Wapachee, Bertie; Beaulieu, Geneviève

doi:10.4324/9781003004820-17

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“…Health is seen as a component of wellbeing in the composite measures [68,69]. In contrast, the subjective dimension of wellbeing has been reported to be composed of an individual's experience of their life [72] and has two main components, supportive relationships and a feeling of belonging, which are important for a happy life [69]. In Canada, the Community Well-Being Index was developed to measure the wellbeing of individual Canadian communities using four parameters (i.e., education, labor force activity, income and housing) to derive a community wellbeing score [71].…”

Section: Indigenous Wellbeing Benefitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, in Australia, nationwide consultation yielded a composite measure of wellbeing, the Measures of Australia's Progress [75], without Indigenous peoples' input. Other levels of Indigenous wellbeing occur at the familial and individual levels [72]. In Australia, it is recognized that for Indigenous people "country" is central to wellbeing [76].…”

Section: Indigenous Wellbeing Benefitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Harvest Programs in First Nations of Subarctic Canada: The Benefits Go Beyond Addressing Food Security and Environmental Sustainability Issues

Tsuji

Zuk

et al. 2020

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By breaking down barriers that impacted the ability of subarctic First Nations people to harvest waterfowl, the Sharing-the-Harvest program provided a safe, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food (i.e., geese) to James Bay Cree communities while also helping to protect the environment by harvesting overabundant geese. However, the impacts extend beyond those described above. Thus, the objectives of the present paper are twofold: to document the food sharing networks of the Sharing-the-Harvest program; and to examine the benefits associated with the harvest program beyond food security and environmental sustainability issues, as revealed through semi-directed interviews. In the regional initiative, harvested geese were shared with all James Bay communities; sharing is an important part of Cree culture. Where detailed information was collected, the goose-sharing network reached 76% of the homes in one of the communities. Likewise, in the local initiative, the goose-sharing network had a 76% coverage rate of the homes in the community. Although decreasing food insecurity was an important focus of the harvest-sharing programs, there were other benefits, from an Indigenous perspective, of being on the land, as identified by the Cree harvesters through semi-directed interviews (e.g., the transmission of Indigenous knowledge, the strengthening of social networks, and the feeling of wellness while out on-the-land). Thus, by participating in the on-the-land harvest programs, the Cree gained benefits beyond those solely related to strengthening food security and contributing in part to environmental sustainability. The Sharing-the-Harvest protocol has the potential to be adapted and employed by other Indigenous (or marginalized) groups worldwide, to help improve health and wellness, while, also protecting the environment from overabundant and/or invasive species.

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Section: Indigenous Wellbeing Benefitsmentioning

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Section: Indigenous Wellbeing Benefitsmentioning

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Harvest Programs in First Nations of Subarctic Canada: The Benefits Go Beyond Addressing Food Security and Environmental Sustainability Issues

Tsuji

Zuk

et al. 2020

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“…This expanding and diversifying conceptual basis has informed analyses of the current agri-food system as well as examinations of existing alternatives and the elaboration of visions of agri-food system transformation beyond accumulation, exploitation and growth. Specifically, degrowth research on agri-food systems has put the degrowth debate into conversation with existing work on food sovereignty (Roman-Alcalá 2017), agro-ecology (Cederlöf 2016) and decolonisation (Radu et al 2021). In developing these connections, the literature has found inspiration in a variety of theoretical traditions, including ecological economics (e.g.…”

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Degrowth and agri-food systems: a research agenda for the critical social sciences

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Degrowth has become a recognised paradigm for identifying and critiquing systemic unsustainability rooted in the capitalist, growth-compelled economy. Increasingly, degrowth is discussed in relation to specific economic sectors such as the agri-food system. This paper builds on the foundational work of Gerber (2020) and Nelson and Edwards (2021). While both publications take a rather specific analytical or disciplinary focus—the former specifically connects critical agrarian studies and degrowth, the latter explores the contributions of the recent volume ‘Food for degrowth’—this paper takes stock of the emerging body of literature on degrowth and agri-food systems more broadly. It proposes research avenues that deepen, expand and diversify degrowth research on agri-food systems in four areas: (i) degrowth conceptualisations; (ii) theorisation of transformations towards sustainability; (iii) the political economy of degrowth agri-food systems; and (iv) rurality and degrowth. Together, these avenues devote due attention to a variety of agents (ranging from translocal networks to non-humans), spaces (e.g. the rural), theories (e.g. sustainability transitions and transformations towards sustainability) and policies (of the agricultural sector and beyond) that thus far have received limited attention within the degrowth literature. The critical social science perspective on degrowth agri-food systems, which is advanced in this paper, illuminates that the present unsustainability and injustice of hegemonic agri-food systems are not merely a problem of that sector alone, but rather are ingrained in the social imaginaries of how economies and societies should work as well as in the political–economic structures that uphold and reproduce these imaginaries.

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“…Culture is also clinical in the sense that culture can be a form of psychosocial intervention [18,24,26]. Cultural activities can act as a buffer for mental health difficulties, and many publications have demonstrated the effectiveness and modalities of actions of interventions that are based on traditional knowledge and land-based activities [18,25,26]. Any attempt to segregate culture from clinical or to relegate culture to local people and clinical to institutional professionals is not only a clinical mistake but a perpetuation of colonialism and of privilege for certain social groups.…”

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Dissecting systemic racism: policies, practices and epistemologies creating racialized systems of care for Indigenous peoples

Fraser

Gaulin

Fraser

2021

Int J Equity Health

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In this paper we explore some of the ways systemic racism operates and is maintained within our health and social services. We look at a very specific context, that of Nunavik Quebec, land and home to 13,000 Nunavimmiut, citizens of Quebec and Canada, signatories of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement. We operationalize some of the ways in which policies and practices create and support social hierarchies of knowledges, also called epistemic racism, and how it impacts our ability to offer quality care that Indigenous peoples can trust and use.

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Degrowth, decolonisation and food sovereignty in the Cree Nation of Chisasibi

Cited by 7 publications

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Harvest Programs in First Nations of Subarctic Canada: The Benefits Go Beyond Addressing Food Security and Environmental Sustainability Issues

Harvest Programs in First Nations of Subarctic Canada: The Benefits Go Beyond Addressing Food Security and Environmental Sustainability Issues

Degrowth and agri-food systems: a research agenda for the critical social sciences

Dissecting systemic racism: policies, practices and epistemologies creating racialized systems of care for Indigenous peoples

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